Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] This here fancy 50
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Thu May 27 11:32:35 2004

And all this time I thought I was doing good with my newly designed 50mm
Elmarit-M. 
S. Dimitrov

> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:13:43 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] This here fancy 50
> 
> But there are two really important points here, Doug -
> 1. You produce work to SELL;
> 2. You replaced one of your primary lenses with an improved version of
> that lens.
> 
> For someone shooting for pay, for whom a fast 50 - say the old Summilux
> - is the 'go to' lens, a trade up is a rational move.
> 
> For the rest of us?....I don't think so.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Douglas Herr
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:57 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] This here fancy 50
> 
> 
> "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com> wrote:
> 
>> I liked it better when I couldn't even think about affording
>> completely unjustifiable stuff like this.  At least then I didn't have
> 
>> countless arguments with myself about why I REALLY need one.
>> 
>> Of course nobody needs a 1500 quid 50mm lens.  The whole thing's a
>> silly idea.  Really silly.
>> 
>> Bet it feels nice and solid though.
>> 
>> Pointless thing.
>> 
>> And positive to focus.
>> 
>> Just daft.
>> 
>> I wonder how much I could get for that Summicron...
> 
> This is the kind of stuff I went through when I considered replacing
> both the 250mm Telyt-R and 280mm f/4.8 Telyt on Televit-R with the 280mm
> f/4 APO - really an outlandishly expensive lens - what did I need a 280
> APO for when I already had a perfectly good 280, and a 250 for backup?
> The irrational won and I bought the 280 APO - turns out it's among my
> most rational camera-buying decisions ever.  The 280 APO is threatening
> to replace the 400 6.8 as my favorite most-used
> don't-leave-home-without-it lens.
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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